The Russian side makes it clear to Berlin that any hostile action against Russia will not go unanswered — this concerns both the possible supply of Taurus cruise missiles to Kiev and plans to deploy American intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles (INF) in Germany.

With a federal election in February, it didn't take long for politicians to try and exploit the attack at the Christmas market in Magdeburg. Domestic security will likely become a key election campaign issue.

Olaf Scholz has lost a vote of confidence in his leadership and Germany now faces its first election of the truly post-Angela Merkel era.

Vance was responding to a post on X on Friday by Ivana Stradner, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies whose specialties include Russia and Ukraine. She said that Musk’s praise of Alternative for Germany, known as AfD, was “SO dangerous” both for Europe and the United States.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said he considered the sometimes harsh criticism of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to be unjustified, news wire DPA reported.

People in Germany fear Russian President Vladimir Putin will attack other countries after his invasion of Ukraine. And they are in favor of a change of government in their own country, a new poll shows.

In an interview with "Die Welt," Tino Chrupalla, co-chairman of Alternative for Germany (AfD), questioned the value of Germany’s role in NATO and the European Union. He claimed that Russia has already won the war and that supplying Taurus missiles to Ukraine would drag Germany into military conflict.

Germany has won approval from the European Commission for EUR 4.06bn ($4.2bn) in subsidies to support the operation of four floating storage and regasification units which the country chartered in at speed and high rates following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Germany will reduce federal debt sales by 13% next year as the government scales back despite a sputtering economy and pressure to support Ukraine’s defense against Russia.

OMV's decision to cut ties with Gazprom is a historic break with Russian gas supplies, and stems from a long-running contract dispute.

Germany's populist party Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW), founded by the former far-left leader of the same name, is campaigning in next year's federal elections on a platform of social measures such as rent freezes and higher pensions.